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1826. Decr 4.
Review of Sugden.
1.

Now as to authority. Under Statute Law, this
is altogether out of the question: no difference between
Statute and Statute: no difference between
Parliament and Parliament: no difference as between
Parliament and Judiciary: every thing authority is as
firm as a each. Between one authority and another,
o.e. between the authority of Parliament and the authority
of the Judiciary, no indeterminate and questionable gradation.

Now how stands the matter in common
alias Judge-made Law. Here every thing is at sea.
In the case of each report, degree of authority doubly in question of the three states abovementinoed the publishing
bookseller is the only one the authority of which
is not exposed to dispute. Between Judge and Judge,
the perfect correctness of the Report being in each
case assumed, and in each case without evidence,
gradations grades of authority multiplied upon an infinite
scale, and in every part of the scale open to dispute. The situation of the Judge in the scale being assumed unquestionable, the authority . Of the Reporter,

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Date_1	1826-12-04	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	078	Main Headings	Review of Humphreys
Folio number	198	Info in main headings field	Review of Sugden
Image	001	Titles
Category	Copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	C1
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Notes public		ID Number	25289
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